Trivia of Julia Harris

 Trivia of Julia Harris (2 December 1925 - 24 August 2013)

*As a young girl, Harris says she saw Gone with the Wind (1939) 13 times and also read biographies of great actresses.

*Her parents sent her to a finishing school in Providence, Rhode Island, before she persuaded them to let her transfer to a girl's prep school in Manhattan then known as Miss Hewitt's Classes, which offered drama. Harris also attended a summer acting camp in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where she was mentored by Charlotte Perry, who encouraged her to attend the Yale School of Drama, which she did for a year.

*In 1950, she made her mark on the stage at age 24 playing 12-year-old Frankie Addams in Carson McCullers's adaptation of her own novel "The Member of the Wedding".Harris's screen debut was in 1952, repeating her Broadway success as the lonely teenaged girl Frankie in Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

*Julie Harris won a 1952 Tony Award for her portrayal of the divinely decadent Sally Bowles in the original stage play "I Am a Camera," and she recreated her performance in "I Am a Camera" 1955 film version opposite Laurence Harvey & Shelley Winters. Harris later disowned the film adaptation due to censors demanding significant plot alterations and dialogue rewrites. She deemed the final product to be unrecognizable.

*In Elia Kazan's autobiography "A Life", said that he was grateful to have Harris on the set of East of Eden (1955) because she had a calming influence on James Dean. Kazan praised Harris as both an actress and as a human being.

*After East of Eden (1955), Harris later known specialized for neurotic older woman roles, from the psychic spinster of "The Haunting" (1964) to the self-mutilating Southern belle of "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1969).

*Julie Harris is the most honored performer in Tony Award history with ten nominations and five victories. She won the award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "I Am a Camera" (1952), "The Lark" (1956), "Forty Carats" (1969), and "The Last of Mrs. Lincoln" (1973); and as Best Actress (Play) for "The Belle of Amherst" (1977). Her five additional nominations were: for Best Actress (dramatic), "Marathon '33" (1964) and "The Au Pair Man" (1974); for Best Actress (musical), "Skyscraper" (1966); and for Best Actress (play), "Lucifer's Child" (1991) and "The Gin Game" (1997).